Please join the Game Design and Experiential Media Program for a talk November 7 at 12:45 p.m. at Robert A. Pritzker Science Center, room 152. Dr. Rua Mae Williams presents “Burning Down the House: How Games Insulated AI From Its Winter Only to be Repaid in Destruction.”

Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing at Purdue University and a former Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. As Principal Investigator of the CoLiberation Lab, Dr. Williams’s work explores how disabled people imagine and build their own sociotechnical worlds. Together with their students, they investigate how technology policy and research practice interact to disrupt disabled people’s bodily autonomy and access to meaningful public life. Through their scholarship they illustrate injustice in technology and uplift marginalized peoples’ own practices of technosocial resistance. Dr. Williams’s book, Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How we Are Wrong about AI is available from Palgrave Macmillan.

Lunch will be provided. All Illinois Tech students, faculty, and staff are welcome—feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested. Please register on 312.